The World League II

First topic message reminder :

Rules;
£150m budget with to be spent on anybody based on their value on TM.
Draft system to build the squads.
Squad to be between 20-25 players, no more, no less.
Tactics short, teamsheet, substitutes, 100 words of tactics, few sentences for substitutions.
Everybody votes or lose a goal from their score, just scores and scorers acceptable although feedback is encouraged.
Choose your own real life team name although this will have no bearing on the players you can or can't sign.

Participants;
Azzy - Vancouver Whitecaps
BamBam - Ebbsfleet United
Holymiky - MK Dons
Marky - Crawley Town
Nadeem - Real Madrid
Olly - Accrington Stanley
Trebs - Liaoning Whowin
Viva - Manchester United
Hero - Macclesfield Town
Nando - Chesham United

Structure;

8 fixtures per team, 4 at home, 4 away. Two relegated from the Premier League, two promoted from the Championship.
3rd place in both leagues will playoff for the right to play in the Premier League.
Starting point determined at random.

Premier League
1. Chesham United
2. Liaoning Whowin
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3. Macclesfield Town
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4. Manchester United
5. MK Dons

Championship
1. Accrington Stanley
2. Crawley Town
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3. Ebbsfleet United
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4. Real Madrid
5. Vancouver Whitecaps

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/detailsuche/spielerdetail/suche

Draft results

Marky:

Holymiky:

BamBam:

Fernando:

Nadeem:

Azzy:

Olly:

Hero:

Trebs:

Viva:

Marky wrote:So what was the best FA Cup goal of the weekend?

Lukaku's 1st v Chelsea
Payet v Man U
Guedioura v Arsenal

Lukaku, followed by Payet. Even Lukaku's second was better than Guedioura's, I really don't see that as special.

Bizarre semi finals - Watford, Everton, Palace, hopefully West Ham. Whichever of those teams wins the Cup, no matter their league position, it's been a great season for them. An Everton win so many years after Amokachi and Rideout? Yes please.

One of the things that struck me this weekend was that during the United-West Ham game, I was glad United equalised, as West Ham would be the more difficult game if we drew either of them.

A sign of how United have fallen from grace. I would have wanted to avoid them like the plague before now.

Results are up for the Championship!

Cheers Hero!

There is no way Everton won't bottle winning the cup

Azzman - I'm going to the hawthornes this weekend - so that means that 1. We'll lose and 2. Is there any decent pubs near the ground?

(Last time I saw Norwich win away was against Stoke in 2013 - although we won at Wembley last year that wasn't an away game)

Done the injuries for next week now as I know Azzy likes to get cracking with his tactics.

Apologies to Nadz...

Have done Premier League injuries

Damn my big mouth and honesty

Just to address this;

First things first, 100 words for the subs from Marky, to me that's overstretching the rules somewhat.

A lot of that was explaining where my players were lining up as if losing I was switching from a 4-4-2 diamond to a 3-1-4-2. Not easy. Kept it to a minimum but fair point.

Olly wrote:Azzman - I'm going to the hawthornes this weekend - so that means that 1. We'll lose and 2. Is there any decent pubs near the ground?

(Last time I saw Norwich win away was against Stoke in 2013 - although we won at Wembley last year that wasn't an away game)

Great to hear you're going mate - enjoy!

In terms of pubs, I'm not entirely sure which is best for away fans (they'll know you're a Norwich fan if they see how many fingers you have when you're drinking your pint). I think the Royal Oak - a few minutes past the ground - might be best at the moment. Definitely NOT the pub at the ground, they don't take kindly to away fans.

Just to clarify, are subs not included in the 100 words for tactics?

Subs aren't included in the 100 words.

The setup should be;

Fixture

Team (and subs bench)

100 words of tactics

Substitutions

I do think there should be a cap on the subs, I fully realise a large portion of the 100 words you used were just replacing names and showing differences in formation etc but it still amounted to basically double the word count of what others write.

Olly wrote:There is no way Everton won't bottle winning the cup

Oh you ######d! Now that's exactly what we'll do.

We are experts at clutching defeat from the hands of victory. Doing the hard work and then stuffing up. Ballsing it all up. We don't need you talking it in as well!!!

Ps I have us at 25/1 to win it so I hope you are right (although the cash out is tempting).

Afro wrote:

Olly wrote:There is no way Everton won't bottle winning the cup

Oh you ######d! Now that's exactly what we'll do.

We are experts at clutching defeat from the hands of victory. Doing the hard work and then stuffing up. Ballsing it all up. We don't need you talking it in as well!!!

Ps I have us at 25/1 to win it so I hope you are right (although the cash out is tempting).

It's so Martinez can complete his full cycle of making Everton a slightly better version of Wigan

Olly wrote:

Afro wrote:

Olly wrote:There is no way Everton won't bottle winning the cup

Oh you ######d! Now that's exactly what we'll do.

We are experts at clutching defeat from the hands of victory. Doing the hard work and then stuffing up. Ballsing it all up. We don't need you talking it in as well!!!

Ps I have us at 25/1 to win it so I hope you are right (although the cash out is tempting).

It's so Martinez can complete his full cycle of making Everton a slightly better version of Wigan

West Ham is going to be tricky. Will be supporting united in the replay

Just get McCarthy to cripple Payet again and it's all good.

https://www.606v2.com/t62455-results-week-3

Results are up - can give people more detailed feedback on their teams if they want (will have to be late tomorrow evening not about in the day)

Hope I get a decent lawyer this week as currently I'm keeper less!

I can do lawyers this afternoon unless anyone else is desperate to

Tactics sent to Marky, I'd wish Nadeem luck but it appears all you need do is play 4-2-3-1 and you get the win. Nadz, hint here: only pick players in the formations they play in real life. Apparently professional footballers with years of experience and tons of ability don't have the capacity to play anything other than 4-2-3-1.

Only problem Azzy is I'm doing results for the Premier League, you need to send your tactics to Miky.

Any Chelsea players or players linked to Chelsea is some way will be voted up by the way..

Just kidding but yeah tactics into me this week.

Marky wrote:Only problem Azzy is I'm doing results for the Premier League, you need to send your tactics to Miky.

Crap. Thanks.

Miky you should have them now.

Good luck Miky writing them up

I'm expecting the loss as I'm playing 3-4-3, and no footballer for 60 years has played that formation.

Got lawyers ready to go if someone can send me mine

If I do them will you complain about it?

I make no promises

ill do it if Hero is scared of you

How could anyone be scared of me!

Somewhere inside is an Azzy style rant.

Ebbsfleet

Jose Fonte - £5m
Jese - £14m

Lawyers up

Thanks BamBam.

I've got them Azzy, cheers.

Get involved in the annual Cheltenham tipping contest run by sportform

https://www.606v2.com/t62459-cheltenham-tipping-competition-day-1#3304384

I will start tomorrow if someone posts a link to the races

Is there any rule against cancelling a TP?

I asked someone for advice and screwed them over in the process after some misreading on my part..

Signed Maicon. Not his biggest fan but can definitely do a job at RB for a while as he's playing okay for Roma this season. No-one here has Gareth Bale anyway...


Iheanacho off the bench is a great addition as well, unless anyone thinks he could play ahead of Ribery at LW?

I'd suggest playing Cazorla at LW, as he's proven capable in the past, but no doubt you'd get downmarked for it.

Sorry for all the confusion guys, Draxler is my player again.

I don't want to screw people over.

I have considered it but I do like the idea of Vidal and Cazorla in midfield together. I think those two with Ribery wide wins more games than Vidal and Cataldi with Cazorla wide.

Especially now Ribery is playing again and hopefully stays fit for a while.

Holymiky wrote:Sorry for all the confusion guys, Draxler is my player again.

I don't want to screw people over.

I did tell you to wait and see what Hero says but you went and cancelled it before doing that

I already asked Hero and he has said it was fine before I pmed you but out of pure guilt I wanted to reverse it regardless but Hero was insistent on me keeping him in the end.

When you play each other it's got to be Draxler x2

Marky wrote:Especially now Ribery is playing again and hopefully stays fit for a while.

And keeping his donger to himself.

Thoughts on this - not sure whether to sell Aboubakar or not. And would it be better to have Payet and Cavani as wingers instead? I'm presuming one of my defensive players will get injured so Blind can fill in where needed.

----------------------------Subasic----------------------------
Lichtsteiner--------Pepe-------------Silva-------------Telles
------------------------------Lahm----------------------------
--------------Moutinho------------------Andre---------------
------------------------------Payet----------------------------
--------------Aboubakar--------------Cavani-----------------

BENCH
Iraizoz
Morgan
Haps
Blind
Rudy
Dembele
El Ghazi

Id probably sell Aboubakar tbh.